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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Sarah Collard

Lawyer claims she wasn’t told for months that Aboriginal teen tried to take her life in youth detention

File photo from inside an Australian prison
A lawyer says an Aboriginal teenager’s attempt to take her own life in custody was only revealed when she saw court-ordered psychiatric reports. Stock photo of an Australian correctional centre. Photograph: Jono Searle/AAP

A lawyer representing children detained at South Australia’s only juvenile justice centre claims she was not informed for almost two months when an Aboriginal teenager attempted to take her own life in custody.

The Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement (ALRM) lawyer who represents the girl in her early teens said the seriousness of the incident in early 2023 at Kurlana Tapa Youth Justice Centre was not conveyed until eight weeks later.

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